Posts

The Office 365 summit toured through a lot of worldwide locations. Last week the roadshow stopped by in Amsterdam – the European event. We have been there and enjoyed the summit (for some impressions and Martina´s session see here). In Amsterdam there have been almost 1.300 participants, about 650 IT-Pros and 150 developers. The rest of the audience have been in the sales, education and adaption tracks and from Microsoft. We created a small statistics about the event on Twitter. See the details here: ...

The Office 365 Summit took place in Amsterdam these days (from 12 to 13th February). Office 365 summit is a free event to get in touch with Microsoft experts about the SaaS Microsoft cloud services around Office. The summit “Office 365 Summit is traveling around the world and delivering technical and sales training direct from the source with Microsoft experts. These two day workshops provide deep technical and sales readiness on all our productivity workloads for IT Professional, Developers, Sales, Adoption and Education.”, see the details on https://summit.office.com/events/office-365-summit-amsterdam. ...

Am 26. Februar findet von 09:00 Uhr bis 13:30 Uhr bei Microsoft Österreich eine Veranstaltung rund um das Thema Datenschutz und Datensicherheit in der Microsoft Cloud statt. Die Veranstaltung richtet sich dabei an IT Entscheidungsträger, Sicherheits- und Datenschutzbeauftragte und Juristen von Unternehmen und soll helfen, ein gemeinsames Bild zur Entwicklung einer Cloud Strategie zu entwickeln und sich über die Rahmenbedingungen zu informieren. Cloud Computing ist in aller Munde, eröffnet neue Möglichkeiten, hilft Unternehmen neue Strategien und Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten zu finden. Gleichzeitig schürt es Ängste und diese müssen sachlich adressiert werden. ...

With D365 version 3.2 there comes full support of security groups with two new modules: security groups for managing these groups and memberships and the new administration / assign security groups module for assigning existing security groups to a particular OU. The security groups list works in the same way as all other lists in D365: new security groups can be created, deleted, members can be added and deleted and the OU assignment of a group can be changed. The search helps for getting access to the desired groups quickly. ...

Für alle Developer und IT-Pros, die sich noch nicht (viel) mit Microsoft Azure befasst haben, gibt es ganz frisch ein kostenfreies eBook mit einem aktuellen Überblick über Azure und die wichtigsten Dienste in Azure. Das eBook “Fundamentals of Azure” ist das erste Buch aus der Reihe “Microsoft Azure Essentials” von Microsoft Press. Fundamentals of Azure wurde von Michael S. Collier und Robin E. Shahan geschrieben und umfasst 246 Seiten – mit einem Vorwort von VP Scott Guthrie. ...

We are very happy and also proud that our CEO, Martina Grom, was awarded as Microsoft Regional Directory (RD) shortly! There’s a lot going on over at Microsoft these days. The RD program is designed to honor world-wide technology leaders who are an active part of the community and who have impact in sharing knowledge around the globe. See the new RD-website https://msrd.io/ for mission statements. The Microsoft RD program exists since 1993 (for an older description see also wikipedia.org). ...

We are proud to announce that we have reached a set of new competencies in the Microsoft Partner Program. atwork now owns five gold and two silver competencies in the Microsoft Partner Network. atwork in Microsoft Partner Program We are highly specialized in Microsoft technologies and are very successful in delivering consulting and software solutions to our customers and partners. So it´s great that our technical skillset is also represented in our new partner logo. Voila, here it is! ...

Delegate365 provides a user self service password reset (SSPR) function since version 2.1. If an user forgot his Office 365 password – and the admins allowed that function – he can self reset his password easily with D365. The SSPR feature comes automatically with Delegate365 at no additional costs. In contrast there´s Azure Active Directory in three editions (Free, Basic and Premium) where SSPR starts with the premium and basic features, see Self-service password reset for users in Azure Active Directory Editions. ...

In Office 365 IT Admins can define Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) for their users to secure access for all or special user accounts. The good news is that Delegate365 supports the usage of MFA for the login process by default. MFA works exactly in the same way as usual. MFA consists of usually two factors: Something you know (typically a password) Something you have (a trusted device that is not easily duplicated, like a phone) ...

Auf .NET Developer kommt viel Neues zu. Der Tools-Hersteller Telerik bietet ein kostenfreies eBook an, welches über die wichtigsten Neuerungen in .Net informiert. Das ansprechende eBook wurde von Michael Crump und Sam Basu geschrieben und ist 49 Seiten stark. Es ist nur eine Angabe des Namens, einer E-Mail Adresse und des Landes erforderlich, dann startet der Download des 16MB eBooks: The Developer’s Guide to the New .NET Die Zukunft des “neuen” .NET startete letzten November mit der Open Source-Ankündigung auf dem Connect(); Microsoft Visual Studio vNext & Azure Online-Event (siehe auch unsere Zusammenfassung hier). ...